Fav'd for "every senior citizen with a walker, there will be found at least one discarded plastic bag that has taken up permanent residence."

Also, it amuses me greatly that you mention your options for enjoying foodstuffs.

I still remember that rumor that you canuks purchase milk in bags XD

Ohshi- you don't think they'd nix plastic gallon cartons, do you?

Rumour? We do buy milk in plastic bags. Sort of like water balloons, but with milk instead of water. You slip it into a hard plastic pitcher and snip the corner off to pour.

We also have milk in the traditional wax carton, of course. But I haven't seen the soft plastic jug since, oh, the early 1980s at least. Maybe before that, even.

I'm old enough to remember glass bottles though, and barely remember them delivered to the door, with wire nets over the top to keep the wax lid from popping off. I remember 100% milk with a bulge in the neck of the bottle for the cream to rise into. (Some people liked to skim it off for the cream.) I just barely remember milk (and bread) delivered in vans drawn by horses. But horse drawn vans were an anachronism that persisted into the very early '50s for some reason.

So Americans can't buy milk in disposable bags? At one time that would have been thought primative. All that bother with jugs that have to be melted down again to recycle the plastic... Now it's probably more Green.

Well considering all I have is hearsay, and I've never seen those bags, it really is just a rumor to me.

We have the wax-paperboard cartons, but only to half gallons. Clear, hard plastic gallon-sized cartons are the predominant way to buy it down here. They don't collapse at all, so they take up a lot of garbage space when empty, but they are made of a plastic that's either totally recyclable or mostly recyclable. I forget which.

Since they're clear, though, they tend to result in less flavorful and nutritious milk. Par for the course with our nutrition problems as a country <3

In America, I've only seen the bags in the foodservice industry. For general public, it's cartons and jugs only. ^_^;;

Those bags usually have built-in dispensers, if I'm not mistaken.

Then again, I can only wish they made a refrigerated "water cooler" version of those huge ones.

That would be amusing to see -- an office water cooler with a 20 gallon container of milk instead of water.

For my apartment, a 20 gallon jug of cola, coffee, or Drambouie might be more to *my* liking.

What can I say?

If it's good enough for baby cows (which coffee and cola definitely aren't), then it's good enough for me.

Yup!